“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano

By Mir Yarfitz Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Latin American Sexualities

How young people in Argentina asserted a new collective identity in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.

Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

By Sarah Emily Duff African Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity

The purpose of sex education for most of the century was conservative.

Shirley Temple: The Unwitting Coquette

By Jen Baker Childhood and Youth

Hers is a childhood constructed out of our nostalgic desires.

"A filthy bruitish offence": Child sex abuse and the law in C17th England

By Jen Baker Childhood and Youth, Early Modern, Sexual Violence

Between 1674 and 1913 there are at least 570 documented Old Bailey cases involving adults accused of sexual relations with children.